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Animated wallpaper

9 replies · 43,662 views · Started 07 June 2005

tiewster 07 Jun 2005, 07:19

Hi...i read from the instruction manual that the phone can use animated gif as wallpaper.....Anybody done it??? or....how to do it???

dukesatan 11 Jun 2005, 20:03

well sorry to say this but i sent an animated matrix style gif to my phone, in the message it was animated and you can set the pic as the background wallpaper, but it did not animate at all. I also saved the pic to the phone normally and using the current theme edited its background picture and again it was not animated, so unless someone can say otherwise i cant see animated wallpapers working, others comments?

Duke.

Merle 10 Mar 2006, 18:32

I also have the same problem, does anybody know how to animate the animated background. The website from nokia claims that animated backgrounds work on nokia 3230! (but they don't on mine)

dukesatan 17 Mar 2006, 00:14

Maybe someone with an updated firmware could try adding an animated gif as a background pic? see if it works on newer versions because it certainly does not seem to on older ones, unless its in a different format totally than a gif.

Duke.

jango28 17 Mar 2006, 06:26

A .gif file is composed of various 'still' frames. When you open it in a browser/viewer, it rapidly shows frame by frame which gives one an impression of animation.
When U set it as a wallpaper, only the first frame will be shown. This will be the case even in Windows OS. I don't think so U can have animated wallpapers. Atleast I haven't seen so. If anybody has actually 'seen' it, please clarify.

jjpig 03 Apr 2006, 19:32

jango28 wrote:A .gif file is composed of various 'still' frames. When you open it in a browser/viewer, it rapidly shows frame by frame which gives one an impression of animation.
When U set it as a wallpaper, only the first frame will be shown. This will be the case even in Windows OS. I don't think so U can have animated wallpapers. Atleast I haven't seen so. If anybody has actually 'seen' it, please clarify.

Yes. Right. Windows as a powerful OS still can't show animation if choose an animated gif as wallpaper.

But my another 3 phones might got a very strange virus. They are Nokia 6230, SonyEriccsson K608i, and SAMSUNG D508. They can show animation if I use animated gif as wallpaper. I hope my N70 can infect this virus.

rulirahm 04 Apr 2006, 02:08

A .gif file is composed of various 'still' frames.
I agree with this. I think its depend on the media (an app that handle the images). My phone can't show animated images too.

ratza 04 Apr 2006, 11:08

Guys, how the hell can you say that Windows can't show animated wallpapers, are you using Windows 3.11? Are you insane? And by the way, I had a Samsung X600 and the wallpaper was animated. I don't know any Nokia with animated wallpaper, but the screen savers can be animated.

Bprsn 06 Apr 2006, 14:12

Wirelessly posted (Nokia3230/2.0 (4.0526.2) SymbianOS/7.0s Series60/2.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0)

Yes,As i know,u cant set gif as wallpapers,if u set it wont animate.Better u download animated themes or screen savers.Itz really good,especially wow screens and dss screensavers.